Newton Stewart Market prices

Newton Stewart Market

Published:16:48Monday 06 February 2017

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PRIME & CAST SHEEP

NEWTON STEWART MARKET

WEDNESDAY 1ST FEBRUARY 2017

1442 Prime & Cast Sheep Sold.

1147 Prime Hoggets sold to average 168.4p/kg (+12.3p on the week). Top price per head was £86 for a pen of 24 Texel Hoggets from M/s A Walker & Son, Mindork, Kirkcowan or 210.5p/kg for an excellent pen of Beltex off M/s N & N Gwynne, Castlewigg, Whithorn. 691 Blackface hoggets sold to a top of £80 for a pen of 20 heavyweights from J Mitchell, Little Larg, New Luce or 189.4p/kg for lightweights from W Lockhart, Culdoach, Tongland and averaged 167p/kg. Cast sheep selling sharper this week and many more could have been sold to seller’s advantage. Topping the sale was £108 for a pair of Texel cross ewes off M/s Galloway, Barvernochan and tups peaked at £100 for a Texel from T & T Coltman, Laggansarroch.

53 Beef bred steers averaged 218.6p/kg. Selling to a top of £1135 for a pair of Simmental Crosses from J Baillie, Low Glasnick and to 272.4p/kg for Limousin Crosses from M/s Bowman, Bagbie. 11 Dairy bred steers averaged 150.5p/kg. Peaking at £760 from H Young, Claunch and to 167.7p/kg from W Gemmell, Holm. 55 Heifers sold averaged 212.4p/kg peaking at £1045 for a British Blue cross from I McIntyre, West Drummoddie and to 256.4p/kg for a Limousin cross from G Adams, Clugston.